Anthropology
Oxford University
The Oxford Anthropology Podcast brings together talks by internationally renowned scholars and cutting edge researchers. Their lectures explore a wide range of human experience and feature case studies from around the world.
We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
We are grateful to the speakers and staff and students from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography who have made this podcast possible.
Episodes
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Mar 18, 2011 • 1h 2min
Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much?
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples.
Mar 18, 2011 • 50min
Dept Seminar: Money-go-round: personal economies of wealth
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (11 February 2011), Professor Deborah James (London School of Economics) discusses the personal economies of wealth, aspiration and indebtedness in South Africa.
Mar 18, 2011 • 47min
The Anthropology of Production
In this lecture for anthropologsts and archaeologists, Professor Chris Gosde, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, examines the history and theory of production across different cultures and the difference between production and ownership.
Feb 21, 2011 • 1h 2min
Dept Seminar: Claudia's Life - Singular lives, Gypsy metonymy
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (4 June 2010), Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco (University of St Andrews) looks at the place of women and marriage in Gypsy society and in ethnographic writings.
Feb 21, 2011 • 48min
Dept Seminar: Dance culture and its dislocation
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (3 December 2010) Dr Felicia Hughes-Freeland (University of Swansea) discusses the relationship between cyberspace and dance.
Feb 21, 2011 • 36min
Dept Seminar: Neo-nationalism five years later
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (26 November 2010), Prof. Gingrich (University of Vienna) examines a return to 'indigineity' in Central Europe.
Feb 21, 2011 • 52min
Dept Seminar: The power of felted cloth through time and space
In this Anthropology Dept seminar (19 November 2010), Dr Stephanie Bunn (University of St Andrews) examines the production and design of Eurasian felt, placing it in a domestic context.
Feb 21, 2011 • 43min
Dept Seminar: Forms of detachment and ethical regard
In this Anthropology dept seminar (29 October 2010), Dr James Laidlaw (University of Cambridge) focuses on forms of detachment in North India, including the role of the anthropologist as observer.
Feb 21, 2011 • 49min
Dept Seminar: Kerala Muslim marriage, gender, and intimacy
In this Anthropology Dept Seminar (22 October 2010), Dr Caroline Osella (SOAS, London) discusses the influence of migrant husbands on Kerala Muslim marriage and female households.
Nov 23, 2010 • 49min
Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dr David Graeber of Goldsmiths, London, examines the history of death and money and how the two can combine.
